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标题：pvclass: An R Package for p Values for Classification
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作者：Niki Zumbrunnen ; Lutz Dümbgen
期刊名称：Journal of Statistical Software
印刷版ISSN：1548-7660
电子版ISSN：1548-7660
出版年度：2017
卷号：78
期号：1
页码：1-19
语种：English
出版社：University of California, Los Angeles
摘要：Let (X, Y) be a random variable consisting of an observed feature vector X and an unobserved class label Y ∈ {1, 2, . . . , L} with unknown joint distribution. In addition, let D be a training data set consisting of n completely observed independent copies of (X, Y). Instead of providing point predictors (classifiers) for Y , we compute for each b ∈ {1, 2, . . . , L} a p value π_b (X, D) for the null hypothesis that Y = b, treating Y temporarily as a fixed parameter, i.e., we construct a prediction region for Y with a certain confidence. The advantages of this approach over more traditional ones are reviewed briefly. In principle, any reasonable classifier can be modified to yield nonparametric p values. We describe the R package pvclass which computes nonparametric p values for the potential class memberships of new observations as well as cross-validated p values for the training data. Additionally, it provides graphical displays and quantitative analyses of the p values.
关键词：classification;quantification of uncertainty;R